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A doctor among the Oglala Sioux Tribe : the letters of Robert H. Ruby, 1953-1954 / Robert H. Ruby ; edited and with an introduction by Cary C. Collins and Charles V. Mutschler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruby, Robert H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White people--Nebraska--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--Correspondence.
- White people.
- Physicians--Nebraska--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--Correspondence.
- Physicians.
- Oglala Indians--Medical care--South Dakota--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--History--20th century.
- Oglala Indians.
- Community life--South Dakota--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--History--20th century.
- Community life.
- Oglala Indians--South Dakota--Pine Ridge Indian Reservation--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota--History--20th century.
- Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
- Pine Ridge Indian Hospital (S.D.).
- Ruby, Robert H--Correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (lxx, 366 pages, [8] pages of plates ) illustrations, maps
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "In 1953 young surgeon Robert H. Ruby began work as the chief medical officer at the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He began writing almost daily to his sister, describing the Oglala Lakota people he served, his Bureau of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day-to-day life on the reservation."--Inside jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The deadliest war
- Timeline of selected events in the life of Robert H. Ruby, MD
- August 1953
- September 1953
- October 1953
- November 1953
- December 1953
- January 1954
- February 1954
- March 1954
- April 1954
- May 1954
- June 1954
- July 1954
- August 1954
- September 1954
- October 1954
- November 1954
- December 1954
- Editors' postscript
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780803230064
- 0803230060
- OCLC:
- 664276009
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